Joni earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from The Ohio State University. Her artwork has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across the US including the 47th Annual Bi-State Art Competition and Exhibition at the Meridian Museum of Art in 2021, Global Warming is REAL at the Museum of Encaustic Art in 2017, B14, the biennial exhibition at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in 2014.
She was featured in Studio Visit, Volume 26, 2014. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, NM and the The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building in Sligo, Ireland.
With lifelong interests in environmentalism, nature conservation, travel and gardening, abstract landscapes and elements of the natural world are prominent subject matter.
Joni works in her studio in Tuscaloosa, AL. Her artwork resides in private and public collections around the world.